Here's the full Deicide set; Duce appears during "Carnage in the Temple of the Damned" at 18:51:
Never seen Glen address this incident. I would assume it was a non-event for him, but he definitely seems like someone who would have appreciated the Mentors. On the other hand, I get the impression that the Hoffman brothers tend to be the humorless sort (although really, how true can that be if you allow someone named Jechael in your band?).
Of course, this wasn't the only Deicide-related drama during the '92 Metalfest--according to Ted Kirkpatrick, Deicide threatened not to play if Tourniquet wasn't knocked off the bill. Yeah, in theory it's kind of lame, but it's hard to be sympathetic given Tourniquet's output after their first three albums. Tourniquet wasn't the only no-show listed on the flyer, as Cirith Ungol had dissolved months before the fest; if I remember correctly, they were still listed on Metalfest promotional material for a deceptively long time.
The rising popularity of death metal combined with pay-to-play logistics and overstuffed band lineups made the 1992 iteration feel like an oddly transitional fest even before multi-stage antics. Previous Metalfest rosters were largely thrash dominated and unerringly metal-focused for the most part, aside from weird genre-nebulous outliers (Last Crack) and the smattering of more HC/punk-associated bands (yeah yeah, I guess Ludichrist, '88 Cro-Mags, Impulse Manslaughter, etc. are defensible enough, but if you're the type of oddball who would prefer seeing Murphy's Law over a New Renaissance Rec. signee, why are you even here?). By 1992, the focus was clearly on death metal, although as the musical extremity increased, so did the amount of non-metal acts. The plot gradually shifted to a largely death metal fest with some odd shit added; by the mid '90s, it seemed less like a decent metal festival and more like a gauntlet of numerous opening sets to be endured in order to catch Venom, Sodom, Exodus, or some semi-interesting mid-tier band. I skipped on the final years, and while the lineups concentrated heavily on death and black metal, the bands were largely mediocre, either from their inception or through hanging around past their primes long enough to wear out their welcome (on the plus side, it seems like the overtly non-metal stuff was toned down, or at least seemed more diluted due to the huge volume of bands).
I didn't intend for this to be a general Milwaukee Metalfest post, but I wanted to get some thoughts down, as unfortunately I don't anticipate scraping together enough material for a separate dedicated post. A reason for this is the lack of documentation--even after a few minutes of searching, I found nothing online about UFO's ridiculous 1995 soundcheck and the ensuing clusterfuck. I feel reasonably certain Michael Angelo Batio played a quad guitar one year, but that also yielded nothing (was it ever documented by a primitive Geocities or Angelfire site that has been lost to time, or was it merely a Nitro-induced fever dream in my mind?).
They may not be able to carry a post on their own, but witnessing Cronos' neat stripey pants and that weird version of Destruction fronted by the alternative rock-looking guy are metal memories to cherish and enjoy nonetheless.
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